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The effect of saccades on number processing.

David E Irwin1, Laura E Thomas

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61820, USA. irwin@uiuc.edu

Perception & Psychophysics
|August 4, 2007
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Saccadic eye movements disrupt cognitive tasks involving the dorsal stream, like number magnitude comparison, but not ventral-stream tasks. This supports the dual-task interference hypothesis within the dorsal stream during eye movements.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Ophthalmology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Saccadic eye movements are known to interfere with dorsal-stream tasks, such as object orientation judgments.
  • This interference is hypothesized to stem from dual-task interference within the dorsal stream, as saccade programming also engages this pathway.
  • Magnitude comparison, a dorsal-stream task, heavily involves the right parietal cortex, while parity judgment does not.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of saccadic eye movements on dorsal-stream versus non-dorsal-stream cognitive tasks.
  • To provide further evidence for the dual-task interference hypothesis of cognitive saccadic suppression.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed either magnitude comparison (dorsal-stream task) or parity judgment (non-dorsal-stream task) under conditions of no, short, or long saccades.

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  • Reaction times were measured for both tasks across different saccade conditions.

    • Main Results:

    • Saccade distance did not affect parity judgment performance.
    • Reaction times for magnitude comparison increased with saccade distance, particularly for right-to-left eye movements.

    Conclusions:

    • The findings support the hypothesis that cognitive suppression during saccades is caused by dual-task interference within the dorsal stream.
    • The right parietal cortex's role in leftward saccades is implicated in the observed interference with magnitude comparison.